Ryan M. Henderson

Special Counsel

Ryan M. Henderson serves as coverage and litigation counsel to both domestic and international insurers in a variety of coverage matters. Ryan has represented insurers in state and federal courts throughout the United States in various matters involving general liability and professional liability matters, including D&O, E&O, and EPL coverage. Ryan has also worked on matters involving bad faith, rescission, reformation in professional liability and commercial general liability insurance.

Representative Matters

Landmark Am. Ins. Co. v. Hilger, 838 F.3d 821 (7th Cir. 2016) Obtained reversal of district court ruling for professional liability insurer where the court held that the insurer was entitled to introduce evidence outside of complaints in underlying action to support position that it had no duty to defend or indemnify purported independent contractor in underlying fraud action.

RSUI Indemnity Co. v. Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund Inc.,et al., 2016 WL 7042960 (M.D. Fla. 2016) Obtained summary judgment for D&O insurer where court found no duty to cover an underlying $40 million consent judgment arising from claims of real estate fraud because underlying claim shared same factual basis and was related to prior counterclaim that was “first made” before the policy’s inception.

Penzer v. Transportation Ins. Co., 509 F.Supp.2d 1278 (S.D. Fla. 2007)Obtained summary judgment for CGL insurer where the court held that insured's transmission of unsolicited commercial advertisements by facsimile in violation of the TCPA did not violate right to privacy within policy's advertising injury coverage.